Besa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Besa

The Social Security Administration has registered 17 babies named Besa between 1982 and 2018, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Besa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 6 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Besa performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Besa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Besa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 17 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.